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Literally 😭

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ppl on twitter talking shit about the fic I wrote just because the pairing is nat x richie lmao, I know it sounds silly but I debated a lot on whether I should post it or not, I’m glad that I did but it really pisses me off that people have so much shit to say about this when these are fictional characters, they literally don’t exist and honestly there are far worse ships out there, this is just my interpretation of their dynamic. I don’t care if people have their own opinions on it but it’s a little hypocritical of some of them to play the platonic/brother-sister like relationship card to criticize the romantic take I have on natalie and richie’s dynamic when most of these people ship sydcarmy (i’m a sydcarmy truther pls don’t get me wrong). Idk just a vent… Thanks to everyone who left kudos/commented on the fic tho, it really warms my writer heart 🤍

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ok so I kinda put a little fic together for Nat and Richie, because why not? it’s gonna be multi-chapter and I’m already planning the second, I hope y’all enjoy :)

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sydney’s passion is cooking and carmy’s passion is sydney

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Ayo Edebiri as Sydney Adamu The Bear, Season 3 (2024) costume design by Courtney Wheeler

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the bear x twitter

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ok but why is no one talking about this???? like, the transition between richie taking his ring off to pete and natalie in front of the mirror is INSANE behavior

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I fear people are seeing this rift between sydcarmy and diluting their whole relationship to that rift… like just how much they care for each other is being lost on some of yall. It’s right in front of our eyes even this season ! sydney simply shrugging like “well duh” when she says she widened the margins because of course she did carmy writes in them- it’s as simple as that. carmy inviting sydney to ever ACTUALLY lowkey begging her to come and introducing her to the table with a hand on her waist because he knew she was anxious to even be there !! you can love people and still go through rough patches come onnn people the love doesnt go away because someone’s being an asshole (aka carmy)

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This season has polarized what was once a united fandom and not gonna lie, it kinda breaks my heart.

I'm not gonna ever tell someone how to like a show, how they should view it, what they should and shouldn't take issue with. Your viewing experience is all your own. The emotions and thoughts you came away with from viewing the show is all your own and valid.

If you hated this season, I respect that. If you loved this season, I respect that. If you hate Carmy's guts and wish to blast him off to the moon for the forseeable future, I respect that. If you completely empathize with him and trust the direction of where the show is going, I respect that.

Personally, I'm caught in the middle. I am still curious for more, but not as hungry for it. I disliked the way the show chose to depict certain characters and their development (or lack thereof). I disliked the pace, the Faks, Claire. But there were moments that I loved. That part near the end of 3x03 where we are shown the calming effect Sydney has on Carmy. Ted and Gary talking about Gary's time in the league. Sydney being supportive and patient with Tina, shielding her from Carmy's anger.

I still love this show and want it to succeed. But, to me, this season didn't do a good job of handling Carmy's trauma in a way that would keep the audience rooting for him. He's become unsympathetic and all the blowback he will most certainly face will feel deserved.

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is it like a bad time to spread my natrichie agenda orrr…

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3x10

This scene was a masterpiece and obviously horrendously tragic at the same time and that for multiple reasons. 

For a little context, we're at EVER restaurant, funeral diner, everyone is having lots of fun and we get a glimpse of Sydney in the middle of her peers. She fits perfectly in, participates in the conversations, entertains and definitely grasps the heart of the people around the table AND YET you have Carmy totally absent. He is the one who invited her and he is not present, he is not here. Instead, he keeps staring down at his old chef two tables away. He keeps staring, dissociates himself completely from his environment and doesn’t interact at all with his old cuisine acquaintances. At first, no one really pays attention or at least you are pushed to think so until Luca asks him if he’s okay and remarks that Carmys is staring. Sydney finds an opportunity in this to ask herself and note that he is indeed staring and wonders who he is staring at. Carmy, eyes still locked on the Chef David Fields from Empire tells them and this is the only moment he interacts with the people around him. Right then and he starts painting the Chef’s portrait to Luca and Sydney.

Carmy : He's the fucking worst and one of the best Chefs in the world. Luca: Well, he used to be one of the best chefs in the world. Carmy: Total prick. Fuckface. The bastard made me very, probably mentally ill. Dead inside. Cold. Never turns it off. Accomplishes more by 10am than most people do in a lifetime. Sydney: "looks over Carmy gravely" Carmy: I don't think he sleeps. I don't think he eats. I don't think he loves. He hates black pepper for some reason I will never understand and he is getting up. Luca: Carm. Carmy. Sydney: Carm. Carmen.

The thing is, each word Carmy uses to define that Chef Fields is, imho, just another adjective to describe who Carmy is as a Chef himself.

I hated that moment. I did not like hearing him describe that man because with each syllables that split through his mouth, I realised that the person Carmy was supposedly describing, that horrible, vicious, toxic, controlling and overly awful Chef that had no heart, no empathy, no source of humanity left in him and destroyed him was in fact Carmy himself.

I felt like he was describing himself and it broke my heart because truly, what he showed of himself in the Bear’s kitchen this season 3 was just that. 

A cold, controlling, harsh and judgmental Chef. 

Someone that would not hesitate to crumble the ounce of confidence left in you (poor Tina) if you don’t meet his standard. Someone who would not respect you if you don’t reach his fucking stupid non negotiables. Someone who would say snarky comments at you, sometimes full of disdain and haughty, implying that he is better than you. 

That is because I am better than you. That is because I have more skills. That is because you’re not good enough, you’re not excellent enough, you are not like me.

Carmy said shouted that to everyone throughout season 3. He did not care and that regardless of the history between them, regardless of the obvious efforts of the past, of the growth of each person in that kicthen. He did not give a single fuck of the looks of panic, of the shaking voice of Tina, of the dead glare of Sydney, of the feelings of distress.

No, Carmy was cold.  He was just cold. A total prick. A fuckface. Demanding. Hard. Full of himself despite his failures. Arrogant and condescending. Ready to crush you mentally if you don't meet his expectations. He did not care. He did not sleep. He did not love.

That was Carmy of season 3 and I hated it.

I despised hearing him describe that Chef, watching him stand up and run after that man to tell him fuck you when Carmy became exactly fucking THAT. It was so tragic and sad and SO fucking hypocritical at the same time and I fear that Carmy was slightly aware, deep down within him. He knows what that man says to him is true, maybe he even knows the monster he described to Syd and Luca was himself and maybe that is why he cries in that corridor because Chef Fields confirms that to him in a way.

I made you excellent. I made you. You became me. One of the best chefs in the world. We are the same so you are welcome.

Carmy was okay. He left excellent but at what price?

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I also wanna point out something during Carmy's depreciating monologue regarding Chef Fields. Not only Sydney stared at him gravely all along, the words resonating maybe a bit too much but also Luca said something I found interesting.

He said "well, he used to be one of the best chefs in the world." and I could not dissociate this from Carmy himself, from him maybe not being one of the best chefs in the world either if he continues like that, if he doesn't step away from the Chef he is now, if he doesn't go back to a track where he wants to get better, where he listens, teach and love and eat and sleeps and is alive.

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If you read all of this, heart on you <3 let me know your thoughts, future meta about ep 3 is coming soon hehe~

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now an unpopular opinion literally no one asked for but abby elliot and ebon moss have so much chemistry, idc what y’all say I see the vision and i low key ship them Idk if it’s my traumatized ass but I kind hate pete 😭 like he’s perfect but he’s so boring omg anyways nat best berzatto carmy suck ass carmy x therapy next season and syd carmy endgame season 5 so true !!!

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they seriously want me to believe that sydcarmy is purely platonic when not only carmy is the one plating and creating the best meal syd ever had but said meal is also heart shaped okay, cool DEFINITELY platonic not soulmatism at all

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the people’s princess

She's so gorgeous

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why is this video 5 hours long?

Pleeeeaaaase they're so cute!!!

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